Instant Flamestrike will it ever come back?

Post by Tush

Now I'm talking about Fire Mage and its old Improved Flamestrike (aka Instant Flamestrike). Blizzard removed it couse it was OP to find stealthed players... Now what about Blizzard or Rain of Fire? Aren't thous OP? Now there has been threads in EUs WoW forums where Mages are asking it back or at least Blastweave. It is also annyoing when you have to use Blizzard or Arcane Explosion to do AoE damage in Raids. As a Fire Mage I want to burn things! Burn I tell you! But I have to use ice sticks to do damage... (Reslly you deal in AoE fight far more damage with one Blizzard than with Flamestrike). Now if they made it instant Fire Mages damage in AoE fight would be better but it still had cooldown wich is 12 sec which is too long and it should be lower to do same dps as Blizzard. So reducing it's cd to 6 sec would be better to deal same damage.

Other could be turning Flamestrike into Blastweave if you are Fire (like Fire Blast into Inferno Blast) which had no cast time and had 7sec cd and dealed a bit higher damage.

Now I want your opinions (taken most of the stuff from EU WoWs Mage Forums)

Post by nickseng

You do know Flamestrike does more damage than Blizzard, right?

ETA: Just to be clear, it does more damage in the sense that FS damage is still ticking and you can still cast other spells in the period that Blizzard is still ticking.

In an AOE situation, it's almost always preferable to cast Flamestrike over Blizzard as long as the CD is up.

Post by Attis

Probably an additional talent for fire mage like: "Combustion causes your next Flamestrike to have no cast time" or "Every tick of your Mage Bomb has a chance to cause your next Flamestrike to be instant"

Post by tarthur1

Probably an additional talent for fire mage like: "Combustion causes your next Flamestrike to have no cast time" or "Every tick of your Mage Bomb has a chance to cause your next Flamestrike to be instant"

I'd rather the latter.

Post by lecanard2

>flamestrike

haha, wait i dont get it, there is a purpose, use flamestrike for high damage high mana cost blizzard for sustainable deeps bc low mana cost, why are you complaining about cast time if they both essentially have to be casted as blizzard has a channeling time?

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